Nicholas Arger, MD

4 locations · UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University Anesthesia Medical Group · University of California San Francisco · Permanente Medical Group Inc

Hospitals listed: UCSF Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A131346 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2014 · expires 2028-03-31 · University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

1 hospital

These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.

• UCSF Medical CenterSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of California Health, which runs 12 hospitalsHome of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 81% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 4.9 (3.79 to 6.02) · 7,590 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 12.8 (11.3 to 14.4) · 2,019 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 139.4 (110.22 to 168.58) · 452 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.622, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.626, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.491, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.8 (0.7 to 1) · 2,336 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$19,882

Medicare paid this office $19,882 for 102 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

102 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 39% · Health risk score 2.23. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 37% · Coronary heart disease 35% · Chronic kidney disease 34% · Depression 33% · COPD 29% · Heart failure 25% · Cancer 22% · Stroke 22% · Atrial fibrillation 19% · Dementia 11%.

The office billed $136,836, Medicare allowed $25,352 and paid $19,882; for 203 services of 16 kinds.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Year by year

Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.

$15,122

Pharmacies billed $15,122 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 71) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%.

22 generic and 49 brand-name prescriptions · $15,122 in drug cost.

Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

NPI

1952690877

Licence

CA A131346California A131346: Current · expires 2028-03-31

Trained

University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2011 · 15 years ago

Group

UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University Anesthesia Medical Group · University of California San Francisco · Permanente Medical Group Inc

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male